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Where Is Light, Actually?

Is it light that makes the outside world visible to us,
and is the means whereby our brains form images of the
outside world? Does light cause all corporeal entities to
come into being when we step outside and cause them

to disappear for us in a completely darkened room?
Were it not for light, would the whole world around us
cease to exist?
The idea that the external world we perceive exists only through

the help of visible light is actually our own impression. There is ac-
tually no light in the outside world, in which a pitch darkness rules.
Neither lamps, nor car headlights, nor the Sun emit any light in the
sense we know it. Light occurs and illuminates the world we live in

solely as a perception in our brains.
The Sun and other sources of light emit electromagnetic particles
(photons) at varying wavelengths. These particles spread out-
ward through the universe as dictated by their structures.

For example, many radioactive particles pass right thro-
ugh your body. Only a lead shield can halt them. Some of
these particles are so heavy and so charged with energy that
they generally destroy any molecules they meet and continue on

their way without changing course. This is the underlying reason
why radiation causes cancer. X-ray machines make use of a weaker
form of radiation. Via photosensitive film, these machines convert
the effect set up by radio waves into visible light, con-

verting them into a form that our retinas can de-
tect. In other words, light exists as long as it is
percieved by the eye and interpreted by the
brain. But light and illumination do not

exist outside in the terms with which we
are familiar.

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